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Patent GB-190223804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Taps for the Discharge of Aerated Liquids and the like.
Inventor: BORLAND JOHN
Filed: 1902-10-31
Granted: 1903-03-26
Abstract: 23,804. Borland, J. Oct. 31. Plug cocks.-To secure that, under a high gas pressure, aerated liquid shall not be discharged too forcibly, and that, under a lower pressure, it shall not be unduly flattened by too slow a delivery, the hollow b of the cylindrical plug B communicates with the supply pipe a<1> by any one of two or more holes b<1>, b' of different calibre.
Patent GB-190228949-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Couplings or Joints for Pipes, Hose and the like.
Inventor: BARENDS CARL HERMANN
Filed: 1902-12-31
Granted: 1903-12-31
Abstract: 28,949. Barends, C. H., and Preston, F. G. P. Dec. 31. Joint making packing; spigot- and-socket joints.- Packing for pipe joints and stuffing- boxes is formed of a conical ring of leather or dermatine, the surfaces of which are of unequal inclination, so that the ring is tightened by the pressure of the fluid in the pipe or valve when in place between two conical surfaces, also of unequal inclinations. The ends of the pipes a, d, shown in Fig. 1, have coned sleeves fitted on them. The cones may be brought together by a union nut with right and left handed threads, or by a nut bearing against a collar on one sleeve and screwing upon the other, or by means of flanges on the tubes. The packing-ring may be held in place by a lip 7. Fig. 5 shows the method of jointing a hose connection. The packing-ring g is held between the coupling - pieces 2, 3. Fig. 6 shows the method of packing gauge glasses of steam generators. The sleeve 9 is chamfered at one end to receive the packing-rings 11, 12, which are forced against the glass 13 and the casing 17. Fig. 4 shows the application of the invention to a valve stuffing-box, one of the cones q being formed on the valve spindle.
Patent GB-190305042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pattern Books.
Inventor: WALTERS LINDSAY ANDERSON
Filed: 1903-03-04
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 5042. Walters, L. A. March 4. Pattern books.-Consists of a combined pattern book and case or holder, especially for silk, tapestry, velvet, and other fabric patterns used in the upholstery and kindred trades, the case being used for displaying and holding samples of trimmings which can be used with or match the fabrics in the pattern book. A case or tray bound up in the middle of a pattern book is shown in Fig. 3. The patterns i<1>, i<2> are wired or otherwise fixed to blocks j<1>, j<2>, which are hinged or flexibly connected to the case at d', d'. The case may be partitioned, as shown in this instance, and the trimmings either gummed or otherwise fixed to the bottom c<1>, or to strips of wood g in the different compartments of the tray, the latter plan being adopted when the trimmings have tassels or other depending portions Strips of cardboard h containing printed matter referring to the different samples may be placed across the tray. A pattern book an d tray is also described, in which the tray forms one or both covers of the book.
Patent GB-190305493-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pumps.
Filed: 1903-03-09
Granted: 1903-05-28
Abstract: 5493. Wise, W. L., [Sandusky Foundry and Machine Co.]. March 9. Bucket pumps; piston pumps.-Relates to multip l e - cylinder pumps having communicating suction and discharge cylinders containing pistons which reciprocate simultaneously, means s being provided for equalizing the strains to which the parts are subjected. The rods R, attached to a guided crosshead, not shown, carry the buckets P', P', p<3>, P<4> having valves arranged as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. A partition 13 separates the suction chamber S from the delivery chamber D, and the diagonally-placed cylinders C<1>, C<3> draw from the chambers S, while the similarly-disposed cylinders C<2>, C<4> deliver to the chamber D. The cylinders C<1>, C<2> and C<3>, C<4> have connecting ports 19, 20, respectively. On the up-stroke of the pistons, water is drawn into the cylinders C<1>, C<3> by the pistons P<1>, P<3>, while the water previously in these cylinders and the water in the cylinders C<2>, C<4> flows out through the open valves V<2>, V<4>. On the down-stroke, water is forced out by the pistons P<1>, P<4>, while water flows up through the open valves V<1>, V<3>. Solid plungers may be used in the cylinders C<1>, C<3>, the valves being arranged in the walls of the cylinders.
Patent GB-190306076-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Floors and Ceilings.
Inventor: SHIELDS PATRICK TERRENCE
Filed: 1903-03-16
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 6076. Shields, P. T. March 15, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Floors; ceilings.-Relates to a fireproof and sound-proof floor consisting of longitudinal I- beams and transverse tie-rods, the spaces being filled with cinder concrete. Anchors B, preferably V-shaped with bent ends, are built into the walls and are connected with the I-beams A by tie-rods C which hook over the upper flanges of the beams. The tie-rods C, D are bent downwards at C<2>, D<2>, and the lower ends of the beams are enveloped by wire netting E. A mould is suspended underneath, and the frame is filled with cinder concrete F which extends into the walls. Dovetailed flooring strips are nailed to the concrete, the spaces between them are nearly filled, and the flooring-boards I are fastened to the flooring strips. Plaster or other coating J is applied to form the ceiling after the removal of the mould.
Patent GB-190313656-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Carrying Photographic Cameras on Bicycles and the like
Inventor: GOFFIN SYDNEY FREDERICK HERBER
Filed: 1903-06-18
Granted: 1904-06-02
Abstract: 13,656. Goffin, S. F. H. June 18. Stands.-A photographic camera is carried on a bicycle or the like by means of a bracket C, which is secured to the handle-bar stem by a clip A and is fitted with a hinged leg R which can be used to support the bicycle in such a manner that it can be used as a stand when making an exposure. The leg R, when not in use, is folded against.and clipped to one of the front forks.
Patent GB-190318974-A (GB)
Title: Changing Advertisements
Inventor: CLARKE LEWIS
Filed: 1903-09-03
Granted: 1904-04-21
Abstract: 18,974. Clarke, L. Sept. 3. Advertising.- Consists in using a series of rollers F, G, H, C, D, E, attached to a frame A for carrying blinds upon which advertisements may be pasted, printed, painted, written, &c. The advertisements are changed by rolling up or unrolling the blinds. The body of the frame, which may be on wheels for pushing it along, or mounted on a vehicle of any kind, may be covered with paper, calico, linen, canvas, &c., also carrying advertisements. The sides or ends carrying rollers may be used separately for mounting on walls, buildings, &c. The covering of paper &c. may be dispensed with, the advertisements then forming transparencies.
Patent GB-190324475-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Brake for Mechanically Propelled Cycles.
Inventor: COCKS WALTER HENRY
Filed: 1903-11-11
Granted: 1904-06-02
Abstract: 24,475. Cocks, W. H. Nov. 11. Brakes ; clips; motor cycles.-In a brake for motor cycles and other velocipedes, a friction block is brought into engagemant with a groove on the driving-pulley by the backward rotation of one of the cranks. During the forward rotation of the bicycle crank, a trip D gives way, but when the crank is turned backwards, the trip will no longer give way, so that pressure on the crank is transmitted through the trip to a lever A, bringing a block C into contact with the driving- pulley. On releasing the pressure, a spring F removes the brake. The trip may be restored to normal position either by gravity, or by a spring E, and, as shown dotted in Fig. 2, this spring serves also to keep the trip out of action when it is desired to wheel the machine backwards, The bracket used for attaching the brake to a cycle may comprise a plate b pivoted to the lever, and a two-part block b<1> embracing the tubular member of the frame and swivelling upon the plate. A plate b<3> and two bolts clamp the block to the frame and to the plate b. The shoe of the friction block is laterally adjustable on the lever, while the bracket in which the trip is mounted, is longitudinally adjustable. The Provisional Specification states that an arrangement for operating the brake by hand may be combined with the apparatus.
Patent GB-190326710-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Suspended Clothes-rails.
Inventor: HUDSON EDMUND CHRISTOPHER
Filed: 1903-12-07
Granted: 1904-09-22
Abstract: 26,710. Hudson, E. C. Dec. 7. Pulley-blocks and lifting - tackle.- Suspended clothesdrying rails are raised and lowered by cords passing over pulleys to sheaves a, b, Fig. 1, of a compound pulley of the kind described in Specification No. 17,682, A.D. 1903, [Abridgment Class Furniture &c.]. Holes are provided in the supporting bracket and the toothed flange f to facilitate the attachment of the cords to the pulley. A two-armed clutch may be used in place of the one-armed clutch l shown.
Patent GB-190328119-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Appliances for Regulating the Steam Supply in Calorifiers, or Water Heaters, Steam Pans, Coils, and the like.
Inventor: PYLE JAMES HORN
Filed: 1903-12-22
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 28,119. Pyle, J. H. Dec. 22. Thermnstats; steam traps. - The steam supply in calorifiers, waterheaters, steam paps, coils, and the like is automatically regulated so as to keep the liquid heated by such steam at a uniform temperature. An equilibrium valve a, enclosed in a casing through which the steam supply passes, is connected by a rod B to a disc or like valve b, fitted in the inlet to a trap or other vessel D. The rod B is coupled to a bow or like shaped metal piece E fitted in the vessel D. The exhaust or condensed water enters through a side inlet C<1> in the tube C, which encloses the rod B, and passes out by an outlet F. If the temperature of the exhaust rises too high, the piece E expands, closing the valves a, b. On cooling, the valves a, bare again opened, and steam admitted to the coils and the like. The apparatus is applicable to calorifiers for heating buildings, supplying baths, and like purposes, and to double-cased steam-jacketed pans and coils used for bottling liquors.
Patent GB-190403016-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Mechanism for Changing the Shuttles in Looms.
Inventor: COSSERAT OSCAR
Filed: 1904-02-06
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 3016. Cosserat, 0. Feb. 6. Loom shuttle-changing mechanism; picking- motions.-Consists in applying the shuttle-changing mechanism described i n Specification N o. 25,591, A.D. 1901, to over-pick looms. At that side of the loom at which the shuttle is changed is arranged a false picking- stick 15 receiving the picker 16 and secured to the picking-strap 17. When the shuttle box is raised, it is open at both ends.
Patent GB-190405316-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Smoke and Gas Ejector for Ordnance
Inventor: BOUCHER ALEXANDER
Filed: 1904-03-04
Granted: 1904-06-09
Abstract: 5316. Boucher, A., and McCloskey, T. J. March 4. Smoke, disposing of.-Smoke and gases are withdrawn by producing a partial vacuum at the muzzle of the gun by a forwardly-directed jet of fluid such as water, steam, or air. Fig. 2 shows an annular chamber supplied with fluid from a pipe h, and having a slit e through which the fluid escapes. Fig. 6 shows a nozzle u, which consists of a chambered block, with a circular series of jet apertures and capable of being turned about the bearing u' into the muzzle of the gun, the jets then being forwardly directed.
Patent GB-190414365-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Check Pay Boxes or Tills
Inventor: PODUSCHKA VIKTOR
Filed: 1904-06-25
Granted: 1905-06-24
Abstract: 14,365. Poduschka, V. June 25. Receipts, checking.-Relates to a check-manipulating apparatus by which, in a restaurant or the like, a cashier records the consumption of commodities against a head waiter or attendant, but under his control, as he hands in the customers' orders. A tray 6 contains in channels 7 rows of checks 11, corresponding to the numbered items of the bill of fare, and, under the channels, racks 8 with returning springs 9 for advancing ejecting- travellers 12 along the channels from hole to hole of a perforated cover-plate 16. The checks drop down a glazed well divided by vertical partitions 15, Fig. 2, into a locked drawer. The travellers 12 serve as indexes for scales on the cover-plate, and it may be arranged that they also give impressions on a record sheet. By means of a removable key, the head waiter or attendant operates a lever 44, Fig. 2, which draws the tray till the racks 8 register with four-bar linkages 30 bearing numbered keys 29. The cashier then presses the keys for the items required by the waiter, so ejecting checks from the corresponding rows and showing the numbers of the rows by raising hinged tablets. A hinged flap 42 turned by the tray operates both a trigger, which disengages latches to let the tablets fall, and a rocking shaft 63 which works a trap 14 over the locked drawer. The tray is drawn out through a hinged door 5 in order to refill it with checks. Until replaced, the racks are locked becau3e two linked parallel bars 20, 21, Figs. 5 and 7, crossing them, are held apart, one being retained by a slot and guide-pin 25 and the other by a spring catch 23. Before the door 5 is closed after the tray is replaced, the waiter disengages the spring catch by a key and pushes in the protruding bar, which draws the other to it and extrudes a bolt 26. Several trays may be provided, one for each separate department of an establishment.
Patent GB-190421271-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Refrigerating Machines.
Filed: 1904-10-04
Granted: 1905-03-02
Abstract: 21,271. Soc. Anon. Westinghouse, and Leblanc, M. Oct. 27, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Ejector condensers. - Apparatus for use as a vacuum pump in refrigerating - machines is shown in Fig. 1. Steam issuing from a nozzle 2 withdraws the air and vapour from the evaporator and passes through the tube 5 to a cham.- ber 6, where it is condensed by a jet of water from the nozzle 7. The delivery tube 8 discharges into the atmosphere through a rose.
Patent GB-190423104-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Casings for Exhausters, Blowers or the like.
Inventor: POLLRICH FRIEDRICH FERDINAND P
Filed: 1904-10-26
Granted: 1905-01-19
Abstract: 23,104. Pollrich, F. F. P. Oct. 26. Making centrifugal fans, &c.- Casings for exhausters, blowers, &c., of the type having a flaring peripheral outlet, are made from suitablypressed sheet-metal blanks which are connected together at flanges r. As shown, each side of a casing is pressed out of a single plate, but may consist of a number of flat plates to which a separately-formed peripheral outlet is attached.
Patent GB-190428901-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Guards for Emery and like Wheels.
Filed: 1904-12-30
Granted: 1905-11-09
Abstract: 28,901. Turner, E., and Luke & Spencer. Dec. 30. Emery wheels, guards for. Two plates a<1>, one at each side of the emery wheel d, are held together by bolts c and supported by angle-irons b. A series of radial slots f is arranged in each plate, and bolts g pass through them from one plate to the other. A multi-link chain i, flexible longitudinally, is arranged round the bolts or interlaced amongst them and acts as the guard. The chain is attached at one end to the bolt g' and at the other to the block l, which can be adjusted along the screw m to take up the slack. As the wheel wears away, the bolts g are moved nearer to its axis and the length of the chain adjusted. To adjust chain and bolts simultaneously, the chain may pass through the bolts. Instead of slots, a series of holes in concentric circles may be used and wire p threaded through them as in Fig. 5, or a chain and bolts may be used with them. Woven wire, mail chain, or other flexible objects may replace the chain.
Patent GB-190501291-A (GB)
Title: Centrifugal Speed Regulator.
Inventor: LEWIS RICHARD HENRY
Filed: 1905-01-23
Granted: 1905-05-11
Abstract: 1291. Lewis, R. H. Jan. 23. Fire-escape type of apparatus.-A centrifugal speed-controlling brake device is shown as applied to a fire-escape in Figs. 1 and 4. A swinging arm 2 is hinged to a window at 3 and carries a sprocket gear 8 over which a lowering-chain 11 passes. The sprocket-wheel shaft carries a spur-wheel 9 gearing with a pinion 16 fixed on a disk 17 loosely mounted on a pin 6 and having projecting lugs 19 engaging in recesses in a pair of brake blocks 13. The brake blocks are loosely mounted on the pins, and are adapted when thrown outwards by centrifugal force at excessive speeds to rub against the enclosing casing 1, which is fixed on the swinging arm. The shape of the brake blocks may be varied.
Patent GB-190505348-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Automatically Rocking or Tilting the Firebars of Locomotive Furnaces.
Inventor: THOW WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-03-14
Granted: 1905-06-22
Abstract: 5348. Thow, W., and Nisbet, W. H. March 14. Fire-bars.-Relates to apparatus for automatically rocking the fire-bars of locomotives from the axle-boxes or connexions thereto. Fig. 1 shows one method of doing this. A lever 3, one end of which rests upon the axle-box 2, is pivoted at 4 and carries a short lever 5, upon which the bearer 6 for the fire-bars 7 rests. The relative motion of the axle-box is thus utilized to rock the fire-bars. The lever 3 may be raised by a handlever acting through a bell-crank lever 11 to throw the rocking-gear out of action. In one modification, the lever 3 rests upon a compensating-lever connecting a pair of axle-box springs, while in another the compensating-lever is connected by a system of levers to a bar to which each of the firebars is connected. The fire-bars may be divided into two sets, operated by a double lever on the shaft 4.
Patent GB-190505462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Controlling of Gas and Air Distribution Systems.
Filed: 1905-03-15
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 5462. Snell, C. S., and Air Light Co. March 15. Plug cocks.-In incandescent gas-lighting, Ó tapered plug cock a is employed, formed with diametrically opposite recesses, of the Saint Andrew's Cross shape shown in Fig. 5, communicating by a central passage b. The cock is connected by a stud t to a spindle carrying a pawl and ratchet r. The cock a is actuated from an airsupply circuit f, g through a pipe j, a diaphragm n, and a lever carrying the pawl.
Patent GB-190506541-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Friction Clutches.
Inventor: WILLIAMS HARRY ABRAM
Filed: 1905-03-28
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 6541. Williams, H. A. March 28. Switches.- Relates to magnetically - operated clutch mechanism for automobiles and other vehicles and machines, in which electrically-operated brake mechanism and an electric annunciator are also employed. For engagement of the clutch, the switch 40<1>, Fig. 4, is moved to the point 40<11>, closing the circuit through a resistance and the coil magnet 10<1> and thereby attracting the disk 16, Fig. 1, into frictional contact with the stationary ring 7, and drawing the cones 4, 5 into engagement. By passing the switch 40<1> over to the point 41<1>, the clutch is gradually engaged more strongly. Loose upon the boss of the cone 5 is an arm 24, Fig. 2, carrying magnets 25. If an increased strain comes upon the safety wire 50, which is attached to a suitable part of the machine, the pawl 51, Fig. 4, is lifted, releasing the switch 40<1>, which is pulled by the spring 52 so that its momentum Carries it over to the point 56, where it is held by the pawl 54, closing the circuit through the annunciator (not shown) and the magnets 25, which frictionally contact with the cone 5. This swings the arm 24 and tightens the brake band 22 on the cone 5. To disengage the clutch without applying the brake, the pawl 51 is lifted and. the switch 40' is brought to its central position.
Patent GB-190511191-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Treating Bituminous Substances, Resins, Oils, Waxes, and the like.
Inventor: BRASCHLER-KURTZ EUGEN
IPC: C10C3/16
Filed: 1905-05-29
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 11,191. Kurtz, E. Braschler-. June 2, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Paving-materials.-Relates to a process for treating asphalt, pitch, tar, paraffins, earth waxes, petroleum residues, resins, balsams, oils, fats, and the like with soap and colloids, such as starch, gums, albumens, caseins, pectins, vegetable mucilage, soluble silicates, and colloidal oxides, so as to render the asphalt &c. miscible in water, the said process differing from known ones in that the colloids are added to a solution of the asphalt &c. In place of soap, substances which produce soap, e.g. fatty acids, fats, resins, and the like, may be used in the presence of alkali, alkaline earth, or borax, and resins, oils, fats, and the like as well as inorganic fillers may be added to the asphalt in addition to the soap. A convenient method of preparing the asphalt is to heat 3 parts of soap and 2 of starch in 10 of water, and then to add gradually, e.g. by means of a nozzle, 90 parts of asphalt in 200-300 parts of benzol, which is volatilized and recovered. When pitch, tar, &c. is used in place of asphalt, different solvent are employed. The paste produced, diluted with water if necessary, is used for making roads or rendering them free from dust, and for other purposes.
Patent GB-190515440-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Ornamentation or Decoration of Pottery Ware.
Inventor: JONES ARTHUR GEORGE HARLEY
Filed: 1905-07-27
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 15,440. Jones, A. G. H. July 27. Pottery, ornamenting. Vases, flower-pots, pedestals, umbrella stands, clock cases, toilet - ware, trinket sets, &c. are ornamented by forming upon them a pattern or border of Greek, Roman, or Egyptian art by means of incised or engraved moulds, the ware being then fired, glossed, and enamelled, and a lithograph or lithographs applied on portions of the ware, after which the latter is fired. The pattern or border is coloured either by pencilling or aerographing in the clay or biscuit state, or by pencilling, groundlaying, or aerographing in the glossed state. An alternative method of applying the patterns or borders consists in printing, tracing, or pencilling them in the underglaze, glossed, biscuit, or enamel stage. [Reference has been directed under Patents Act, 1902, to Specifications Nos. 15,878 and 22,983, A.D. 1903.]
Patent GB-190515856-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Inverted Gas-lamps.
Inventor: REISS CARL
Filed: 1905-08-02
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 15,856. Reiss, C. Aug. 2. Incandescent gas lamps; globe holders; lighting gas.-Above the globe of an inverted lamp is a cap a, provided with an opening c for lighting the gas from above, and smaller openings b for discharging the combustion - products.
Patent GB-190516075-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Supplying and Cutting Off Currents of High Potential to and from Conducting Lines.
Filed: 1905-08-05
Granted: 1905-09-28
Abstract: 16,075. Seimens-Schuckertwerke Ges. Feb. 23, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Distributing; switches.-High-potential current is supplied to, or cut off from, conducting-lines by means of a transformer, divided into a small number of steps, and a step-by-step switch apparatus having its contacts immersed in oil.
Patent GB-190516551-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Temporary Book-binders.
Inventor: NICHOLSON ROBERT JOSEPH
Filed: 1905-08-15
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 16,551. Nicholson, R. J. Aug. 15. Bookbinding.-Books are attached to covers temporarily by means of a strip 5 of metal fixed to the back of the cover between the back 6 and the lining 9. This strip is upturned at the ends, and to the end 7 a staple 11, 12 is fixed. The other end 8 has a circular hole through which a wedge strip 14 is passed and held by a split ring 15. The book is held under the ends of the staple and the wedge.